Acoustic sound treatment question!?!?

[NathanNasby]

Thanks Andy. I hadn't seen these guys before, but they have some great looking products. I sent them a note and am getting a quote as well as shipping details. Good stuff everyone. Lots of good thoughts and suggestions!

[Dwayne Russell]

Having built 4 recording studios, I think it is a mistake to spend that much on foam. In any small room I would use little foam. But, just about everyone disagrees with me. People follow the heard and the heard usually wins.

If you want a really killer room for cheap, PM me. Or just listen to the heard. I have friends in the heard. So I'm not bashing them, just giving my 5 cents worth.

[andygabrys]

Having built 4 recording studios, I think it is a mistake to spend that much on foam. In any small room I would use little foam. But, just about everyone disagrees with me. People follow the heard and the heard usually wins.

If you want a really killer room for cheap, PM me. Or just listen to the heard. I have friends in the heard. So I'm not bashing them, just giving my 5 cents worth.

hey Dwayne - I would love to know how to build one too. share publicly if you like.

you mean foam like Aurelex Foam right? not counting OC 703 / 705 as foam?

[Dwayne Russell]

Having built 4 recording studios, I think it is a mistake to spend that much on foam. In any small room I would use little foam. But, just about everyone disagrees with me. People follow the heard and the heard usually wins.

If you want a really killer room for cheap, PM me. Or just listen to the heard. I have friends in the heard. So I'm not bashing them, just giving my 5 cents worth.

hey Dwayne - I would love to know how to build one too. share publicly if you like.

you mean foam like Aurelex Foam right? not counting OC 703 / 705 as foam?

Ok everyone hold your tomatoes.

In my humble, little ole opinion, the best and cheapest thing to do in a small room, is barrel defuse the room and MAYBE put bass super chunks in the corners. ANY corners.

Cover 80% of the room with barrel diffusion. This way you don't suck up all your mid, high or what ever you want to call it.

I won't say why cuz that is when the tomatoes start getting thrown at me.

Use the cheap concrete forms you can get at home depot for $10 each and then paint them or something. If you need to make super chunks, then use rock wool cut into triangle and stack then in the corner and cover them somehow.

[andygabrys]

Having built 4 recording studios, I think it is a mistake to spend that much on foam. In any small room I would use little foam. But, just about everyone disagrees with me. People follow the heard and the heard usually wins.

If you want a really killer room for cheap, PM me. Or just listen to the heard. I have friends in the heard. So I'm not bashing them, just giving my 5 cents worth.

hey Dwayne - I would love to know how to build one too. share publicly if you like.

you mean foam like Aurelex Foam right? not counting OC 703 / 705 as foam?

Ok everyone hold your tomatoes.

In my humble, little ole opinion, the best and cheapest thing to do in a small room, is barrel defuse the room and MAYBE put bass super chunks in the corners. ANY corners.

Cover 80% of the room with barrel diffusion. This way you don't suck up all your mid, high or what ever you want to call it.

I won't say why cuz that is when the tomatoes start getting thrown at me.

Use the cheap concrete forms you can get at home depot for $10 each and then paint them or something. If you need to make super chunks, then use rock wool cut into triangle and stack then in the corner and cover them somehow.

no tomatoes here. you mean those concrete forms, then fill em with like Fiberglass Pink? that doesn't sound that wacked out to me.

I think several people were advocating bass traps in corners (again any corners, as there are 12 angles in a typical room) using rockwool or OC 703 / 705.

[Dwayne Russell]

Yes those forms, but you don't have to fill them in.

[NathanNasby]

Hey Dwayne,

Sounds very interesting! I will probably send you a note to get more detailed info.

I'm actually not just a sheep "following the herd" here ! This is actually my 5th home studio space that I have worked on. In my previous attempts at sound treating I've done everything from building wooden baffle bass traps, to Rock wool bass absorbers, to large 4x8 pyramid foam sheets to heavy drapes etc. I've never been totally satisfied with the "sound" that my room generates or carries, or whatever you want to call it. I had considered doing more research and building more of my own traps and absorbers etc, but I am in the position where I have gone that route 4 times already but I've never actually gone great guns and actually purchased an engineered package or sound treatment to really KNOW if there is a different. I didn't want to simply exercise my DIY arrogance (Which I have plenty of ) and bash the more costly prefab designed systems until I had actually gone that route and found out if I can hear the difference in my ears and in my recordings. I guess I'm just at the point where I know what I can expect from DIY systems, and I have no experience with the other systems to know if they are better or not. I did end up going with Auralex. They designed my room specs. They had me send them some audio that they analyzed and based further recommendations on, and they gave me full instructions on setup. I will be getting my products sometime beginning of June and shouldn't take to long to get them installed. After that I will "Know" if the extra cost has been worth it from what my studio sounds like and records different instruments etc. It may turn out that shortly after that I write up my post about how the room sounds no better after spending all that money. Either way I'll be sure to post some audio samples and pictures when I get it done.

Seriously though, it's not some snobbish "look at me I have a fancy shmansy studio" attitude that drove me to this decision. I just want the best sound out of my room that I can achieve, and until I try it I will never know. So we'll see !

Thanks for posting though. I might get ahold of you and try building your system and do a studio test with both setups.... if I have the time !

[Dwayne Russell]

Cool.